Meet our new jewellery designer in residence: Sarah Warsop

15/08/12

The British Library's first ever designer in the programme is Sarah Warsop, a successful choreographer and jewellery maker. Her residency will take place from September 2012 to March 2013, ,and she will be delving into our collections to research music, notation, drawing, sounds and multimedia content around performance to gain inspiration for a new piece of work.

She is interested in how movement and dance can be mapped through dynamic drawing processes, capturing its essence through jewellery, communicating a sense of the rhythm, direction, speed and flow of the original piece of choreography.

She will be researching pre-20th century music and dance notation and attempts to transcribe composition and performance. In the 21st century, many composers and choreographers like John Cage and Trisha Brown experimented with notation as an art object in itself - a third object outside composition or performance, rooted in transcription, functioning as art.

An important part of the residency is the support Sarah will receive from the Business & IP Centre to commercialise her work. She will get advice on areas such as copyright, manufacturing, pricing and costing.

At the end of the residency, she will create a new piece of work which can be sold commercially.